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[Tools] UMLet 5 Free UML Tool
If you are not already using it, go and get the wonderful absolutely must-have "fast and free" UML tool, UMLet. If you are using it, you may want to know that Version 5 is out now.UMLet is a tool for us agile, nimble folk! No crufty code generation or 200 page pseudo-marketecture reports here -- just what may be the quickest way to sketch UML this side of a whiteboard! -
[Tools] Avant Browser - tabbed IE browsing and more
Finally tiring of not having Mozilla-style tabbed browsing with MSIE, I somehow stumbled upon the free Avant Browser, self-billed as a "fast, stable, user-friendly, versatile multi-window browser." Until Microsoft wakes up and gives us a new browsing toy, you may also find Avant Browser useful. I have found it worthwhile enough to recommend it here. -
[Tools] Scott Hanselman recommends some cool new tools
Time to revisit Scott Hanselman's 2005 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List. He has added some nifty new tools to it.
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[Music Composition] SynthEdit and CSound
Lately, I have been doing a lot of research and experimentation with VST plugins, particularly synthesizers. In the near future, I will report many of the cool things I have found. It is extremely cool to be able to create your very own synthesizers.
In the Steinberg World of VST, the most fun tool I have seen yet is SynthEdit. To get a handle on synthesis at a more detailed level, though, it looks like the universal training ground is CSound. While built with a much older technology, CSound is great if you want to really understand how to go about creating sounds.
I highly recommend playing with both.